THE MAGAZINE FOR THE DRAINAGE, WATER & WASTEWATER INDUSTRIES
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documents even contain the term ‘confined space’ in their pages, it is difficult if not impossible to find specific statistics relating to incidents in the sewerage and drainage sector let alone figures relating directly to confined space. According the figures that have been found around 15 deaths per year on average occur across all types of confined spaces across all sectors with Asphyxiation being the leading cause of death in these confined spaces. But, nothing to separate out those that occur in the sewerage/drainage/pipeline sector appear to available through HSE or similar organisations.
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So,man-entry into anymanhole, pipeline, chamber, tank or trench (deeper than 1.5mapparently) will fall under this definition.
Any incidents accidents or fatalities caused through entry into a confined spacemust be reported under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and
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Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR). However, looking around the available data online (unless I amlooking in the wrong place), for example the HSE’s ‘Kind of accident statistics in Great Britain, 2022’ and ‘Work-related fatal injuries in Great Britain, 2022’neither of which
This raises the question of course of how well is the sector doing? Is it that there are few statistics because we work so well and so have few incidents or is it that the sector is something of Cinderella sector that few seemto worry overly about? Probably not the latter, at least not amongst that work in the sector, but good statistics would help the industry understand just where it sits in the health and safety spectrum concerning confined space ops. Itmay well be that individual organisations keep such records but a country-wide view does not appear to be available.
Furthermore, there is a plethora of confined space information online concerning regulations, working practices etc. that is easily available to anyone working in such situations.What is perhaps a slight worry is that, according to some in several industries
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